Contemplation

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Espion - Yay! Chapter 2!

Heero - *slams head against the ground*

Espion - *pouts* Anyway, Here's Chapter 2! Hey, DeathSi, I checked, and you are in the last chapter…

DeathSi - I am?

Espion - Go back and Read it again, Baka, and while you're at it, review, 'cos that'll bring my review count up to… One.

Duo - Espion, will I get a lemon scene with Heero?

Espion - O_O

Deathsi - O_O

Alethea - O_O

Espion - *cough* Ask Shinigami or KC about that kinda stuff…Onwards!

Duo - Awwww…C'mon…

The Fic Factory - Part 2 - Contemplation

Heero eyed the plant with obvious distaste, and looked at Claire, who was now stood up and in the process of finding sharp objects to poke Duo with. She cackled as she found a twig. She stuck it in Duo's ear. No response.

'Is he dead?' asked Simon conversationally, as Charlie joined them, and registered mild surprise at what they were consuming. That is to say, she did NOT yell, 'What the hell is this crud? You people are sick!' No, she really didn't, no, oh all right, she did. She also aimed a kick at Relena when she trotted over, wagging her tail, to see if she could have Charlie's food.

'No, I don't think so.' said Trowa, finishing his food, 'I'm seen him sleep through worse.'

'Oh my God! You ate that! What are you? Japanese?' Heero glared at Charlie, who had spoken.

'No, he's German. Remember the things we had to eat on the German exchange?' said Claire.

'Oh yeah....'

*

Quatre pointed to where smoke was rising from the fire the authors had summoned.

'Over there.' he said, 'about a mile away.'

'Good, it isn't far,' said Dende, 'we should be there in just under a minute.'

Quatre blinked, and said, 'How fast can you run?!'

'Oh, not very fast,' said Dende, lowering his head, 'I'm a very slow runner...'

'Then how...?'

'...but I'm one of the fastest fliers!' laughed Dende, rising into the air effortlessly.

*

'I can't believe this idiot is wasting our time!' said Wufei angrily, 'How long can a person sleep for?'

'Personally, twelve hours is my limit, but with Duo, well, who knows?' said Claire, frowning.

'Duo!' said Katherine wearily, 'please get up before I harm you.'

Heero walked over to Duo and pulled his plait.

*

Quatre watched with his mouth wide open as Dende ascended. The little Namek turned and fixed him with a questioning look.

'What's keeping you?'

Quatre shook his head, partly the clear some of the fuzz in his brain, and partly because his fringe was in his eyes, and he hated that.

'Dende, I can't fly.'

Dende descended slowly to the ground. 'Oh.'

'Can we walk?'

'Alright....no...hang on....'

*

'Yaaaaaargh!' cried Duo, sitting bolt upright, wide awake. Claire, Charlie, Simon and Katherine all slapped their foreheads simultaneously.

'Why didn't I think of that?' they all said. Comical though it was, none of them believed that they hadn't seen the obvious path to consciousness for Duo.

Heero stood up and pointed out towards a large waterfall spewing fluid strings of bright green water into a nearby lake.

'Look.' he said simply. They all looked, and looked some more at the floating green dot in the sky.

*

'Dende! Have you done this before?'

'Never.'

'Oh.' Quatre gulped as the scenery began to flash past below him. He gripped Dende's hand tightly, and screwed his eyes shut.

*

Trowa and Wufei stood up as well, and as Katherine, Claire, Charlie and Simon had already been standing up, they did....nothing.

'It's Quatre!' said Trowa quietly, relief flowing through him as he watched the two figures approaching at speed.

'Who's the green blob?' asked Duo, still yawning. Relena started to bark at the very strange sight.

'A Namek?' hazarded Claire, scratching her head. Yes alright, I know people don't really do that when they're confused, but she did. This is a fic. Get over it.

*

Dende put Quatre down around 100 yards from his friends, and then lowered himself to the ground. Quatre patted the little Namek on the head.

'Much as I appreciate the gesture, Dende, never ever ever make me have to do that again.' Dende smiled again.

*

Relena bounded joyfully towards the two figures, barking happily. Dende squealed and ducked behind Quatre.

'Wha...what is that?' he stuttered.

'Just a dog.' said Quatre as he looked up to see Duo running towards him. 'Humans keep them as pets.'

'It's friendly?'

'Oh yes.'

Duo jogged to a halt and cocked his head to one side.

'So. Quatre. I'll have to add disappearing in the middle of the night to go and play with aliens and scaring us stiff to the list I'm keeping of your questionable hobbies, right alongside speaking to the turkey at Christmas before you cook it. (Hate to break it to ya, but it already dead when ya buy it!)'

'I don't know what scares me more, Maxwell.' said Wufei, walking up behind Duo. 'The fact that Winner did those things, or the fact that you're keeping a list.'

'It's already dead?' whimpered Quatre. 'I didn't kill it?'

The others joined them, but no one noticed Dende, who was currently being licked halfway to death by Relena. He didn't seem to mind though, and when he got his first chance, he jumped onto her back and sat there, looking pleased.

Then they noticed him.

'Nyargh.' said Charlie.

'Oh.' said Katherine.

'Dude!' said Duo. Sure, that didn't really have any relevance to the conversation, but it had been clamouring to be said this whole fic long.

'Hn.' said Heero. Were you surprised?

Of all of them, only Trowa said anything constructive. 'Hello.'

Dende smiled and replied, 'Hello.'

*

'This is Dende,' explained Quatre, watching Relena trotting around, delighted with her new responsibility, 'and he comes from this world. Apparently his people have been catapulted into our reality, and, as you may imagine they're not enjoying it much.'

'Those poor Nameks,' said Claire, sighing, 'I hope we can set this right.'

'It'll get sorted.' said Heero firmly. He watched as Dende fell off Relena's back and began to roll towards the lake. 'It has to.'

Duo watched as Heero put his hand on the ground and closed his eyes. He'd seen him do this before. The last time had been just before he'd gone across to Libra. Heero had put his hand on the side of his Gundam just like that. It had been almost like he was asking for help, but from inanimate things. Duo derailed his train of thought quickly, and began to pick though it carriage by carriage until he reached the word 'inanimate.' He *stared* at it. He'd never used that word before, and wasn't even sure what it meant.

As Duo was puzzling over this, Heero stood up and turned to face Charlie, who promptly nyarghed and tried to hide behind Trowa. That was a challenge. Heero sighed. This was gonna be hard.

'I need your help.'

Claire pretended to pass out. Simon really did pass out. Duo glared at both of them.

*

'I'm not saying we can't do it,' said Charlie, death-glaring at Heero, 'all I'm asking is how could your Gundam possibly come in useful in this situation?'

Heero started to glare, but then decided to conserve his internal equilibrium. Doesn't that make him sound smart? Well, he's not, so there. It just means he's not gonna waste his time. Nuh, Heero fans. Just kiddin'. Love ya really.

'I can use the power of Wing Zero....'

'Or any other Gundam....' said Duo quickly.

'...or any other Gundam,' Heero relented, 'to enlarge the portal Quatre found.'

'Why a Gundam? We could just use a stick.' grumbled Claire. Then she spotted Charlie looking at her. 'What?! What did I say? Oh my God! You sick little....'

'You must have a hentai mind if you got that.' giggled Charlie, dancing out of reach. Claire blinked and tried to look innocent.

'Got what?'

Quatre looked at Charlie and Claire and shrugged.

*

'If I summon your Gundam, you have to promise not to kill us....wait, forget that, it's in your best interests not to kill us...Oh yeah...' Charlie looked thoughtful. Duo rolled his eyes, and Claire summoned a guinea pig. Duo glared at it.

'What did you summon that useless thing for?'

Claire looked at him as if he was stupid. 'It's cute.' she said. Katherine sighed wearily.

'You asked for that one Maxwell,' she moaned.

*

Claire and Simon looked apprehensive.

'We can't.' said Claire bluntly. 'Look, you two have been authors since long before we began to get interested in Anime, with Hogwarts and stuff like that, but Si and I have never had to summon anything as complicated or as big as a Gundam.'

'Well, there's a first time for everything!' said Charlie breezily, glomping Claire and dragging her over to where Katherine was standing. Claire whimpered but let herself be glomped away. Simon stood his ground.

'Claire's right. We can't possibly...not without outside help.'

'So let's get some outside help!' said Katherine, and though it was the easiest thing in the world.

'Who?'

'Hmmmmm…I have an evil idea…' Charlie grinned evilly. Even though Duo sensed that what she was about to do wouldn't affect him in any way, he moaned. He was becoming very afraid of that grin.

*

'…which equals… complete and total boredom.' Zoe finished the essay she'd been working on and smiled. Romeo and Juliet. 'Nuff said.

She was about to shut down her computer when a message popped up in the bottom right hand corner of her screen, making a zwoosh noise. She stared at it.

'You have 1 person who wishes to ask you for help concerning a rather large problem…' she read, and then said, 'HUH!!??'

*

'What, just like that?' asked Trowa, looking at the flashing 'MESSAGE SENT' message on the rock in front of him.

'Just like that,' said Katherine. And that was it.

*

'Errr…okaaaaay.' said Zoe quietly as she clicked the hypertext.

Hi Zo! We're in a small predicament, ya'see, we all (Me, Katherine, Claire and Si) have been sucked into our cpus ne? And we need your help. Can you please send us all the info you can find on the Net 'bout Wing Zero? Send it to 'Them what are a little bit buggered @ ficfac. net,' Onegai. Arigato!!

'I'm but a humble servant,' mused Zoe as she began to type back.

*

Charlie cackled as the information began to pour in.

'Now, how do I go about printing this out?' she wondered aloud. She spotted a crack in the ground and giggled, 'That'll do.'

'That,' said Heero patiently, 'is a crack in the ground, not a…' Paper began spewing out of the crack, with numbers and dimensions printed on it.

'…printer…?'

Charlie looked superior.

'You forget, dear Gundam Pilot, that this is the fic factory, and we are fic writers. Anything is everything, and yet all.'

'Hn.' said Heero. He wasn't going to admit it, but he hadn't understood a thing that Charlie had just said. What he didn't know was that Charlie didn't either, but it had obviously sounded impressive. She picked up the wadge of papers and beckoned Katherine over. She came, towing Claire and Simon, who were both making similar, "I don't WANNA!" noises. Claire broke free from Katherine and held up her hands to indicate that she had something to say.

'Claire has something to say,' translated Si. Claire growled.

'Aren't any of you just that little bit curious about how this mess occurred? Who's behind it all? Yadda Yadda? Hm?' She looked around. Charlie paused.

'Yeeeeeeeeeeeah…. I guess, but it's far more fun to….have…. fun?' Claire's muse appeared from hammerspace and bit Charlie on the ear.

'Felflowne!' cried Claire, 'what are you doing here?' The chibi-neko-cat creature* grinned sweetly as Charlie yelled and tried to throw her off. Katherine grabbed Felflowne by the scuff and Duo dragged Charlie away from the psychotic figment of Claire's warped imagination, who was now snuffing at the reality portal with polite interest.

'What is THAT!?' exclaimed Wufei as Felflowne trotted over to Claire, who scooped her up and snuggled her face into the cute creature's fluffy neck and made coo-coo noises.

'Now I'm scared,' whispered Simon, backing into Trowa in his desperation to get further away from the maniacal authoress.

'She's my muse, Felflowne**. I created her,' giggled Claire.

Felflowne looked up and twitched her whiskers.

'Braoooooooow?' she said, looking disdainful.

'Well, if we knew that 'Flowne, we wouldn't be here,' muttered Claire.

Part 3 cometh!!

*If you wanna see a picture, go to www.geocities.com/kaffei, click the purple arrow, then go to the FanArt page, and if you go there, don't forget to check out Zoe and Si's pictures too, and please send me some of your fanart too! I'll put it up, I promise! *waffs for FanArt*

** Felflowne – Fel – Flo – Nee. (Not Fel – Flown as my sister pronounces it!!)

Please review! I'll wrap it up next chapter. Perhaps I'll do it Scooby Doo style…MWA HA!!

Heero – Shinigami help us all!!

Felflowne *bites him*

Heero – Itai!